Wife asked kids to feed and talk to husband's rotting body for three years so he would 'resurrect'

An investigation was opened after the body was found in a skip in a plastic bag in July

A woman with five children kept her husband's body in their flat for almost three years after his death.

The unidentified woman, described as a devout Pentecostal Christian with a psychiatric record, was so distraught when her husband died of natural causes in 2009 that she believed he "was bound to resurrect", prosecutors in the central Yaroslavl region of Russia said.

An investigation was opened after the body was found in a skip in a plastic bag in July.

The woman kept the corpse in a bed in a room of her apartment and asked her children to talk to it and feed it.

Two of the children decided to dispose of the body when the family moved to another flat.

In July police discovered the body of a man in a living room chair in his southern Michigan house.

His partner, Linda Chase, kept her boyfriend's dead body for 18 months so they could watch NASCAR racing on TV together and so that she wasn't alone.

The 72-year-old said she kept the remains of Charles Zigler clean and dressed and talked to the body while watching NASCAR on television.

She told the Jackson Citizen Patriot: "It's not that I'm heartless. ... I didn't want to be alone. He was the only guy who was ever nice to me."

Police discovered Zigler's body in a living room chair last week.

Authorities believe he died of natural causes at the age of 67 in December 2010, although Chase said it was last December.

She told officers there wasn't a bad smell.

She has not been arrested but is being investigated for financial fraud.